Words

Last night when Z was finally going to sleep after crying, then laughing then crying some more I was thinking that this time last year he was just starting school.
In all honesty I can’t say that he really had any words, maybe dad, Mam comes and goes. He had said the odd word, duck, no, gone, but these were very few and far in between.
Always after weeks of no sleep something happens, those mental leaps. He followed the wonder weeks well, hit most things except the social and language side, others like the cognitive he hit early. The physical things were on ‘time’. I know the signs of new leaps. The weeks leading up to, the no sleep and there’s always something new after. Things like noticing things, learning to do things like pull up his trousers or zip up his coat, things maybe others take for granted.
These last few weeks we seem to have had words. If I show him words he says them. I was trying to think of what words he can say and I’d like to think we’re up to around fifty. As it’s the beginning of a new year, a new month I’m going to try and list them. Give me something to look at and see progress next year.

No

George

Ball

All

You

Down

Get down

Jod

To

I

Go

Into

He

Me

Be

Was

Geroff ( get off)

Dink (drink )

Cake

Nan

Two

Three

Gool ( school)

Good

Boy

Good boy

Bye bye

Baby

Goodbye

Ta

Hiya

Do

Rar ( for George dinosaur rawr!)

Jump

Have

Dog

Egg

Funny

Yucky

Up

Or

Door

Mam

Dad

Are

Open (opeen)

Big

Car

Boom

Banana

Tickle Dun ( don’t)

Oh no

All done

I’m sure there’s others that he’s saying that I can’t quite think off, he’s trying to put more words together to make sentances, like get down, or get off when I’m tickling him, and no don’t! That’s funny yet he keeps coming back for more tickles.
He’ll spell lots of words and I can show him a word and he says most of them, so I know he can say the word just he don’t bother, were at that more babbling, more vocal stage like a toddler. He’s also started to make a pig sound if you say daddy pig, he’ll make a pig sound. If I say George, he’ll repeat George I’ll say dinosaur rawr, he’s say arrr, then oh no. All whilst giggling! I think maybe the oh no is either for effect or he’s worried I’ll start crying!